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Gould, Stephen Jay - Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams
and the Diet of Worms
Essays on natural history
New York, Harmony Books, 1998, first edition
Hardcover. Halfcloth. With dustwrapper
16 x 24 x 4 cm.
422 Pages
ABSOLUTELY NEW. NOT READ
Ex-libris on first free endpaper
With lots of black & white illustrations
Leonardo\'s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould\'s popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has announced that the series will end with the turn of the millennium.
In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself.
With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature\'s and humanity\'s diversity and order.
In affecting short biographies, he depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and wherefores of existence.
Shipping fee (The Netherlands: € 7,25; Europe: € 14,95, The rest of the world: $ 27,95) to be paid by buyer
and the Diet of Worms
Essays on natural history
New York, Harmony Books, 1998, first edition
Hardcover. Halfcloth. With dustwrapper
16 x 24 x 4 cm.
422 Pages
ABSOLUTELY NEW. NOT READ
Ex-libris on first free endpaper
With lots of black & white illustrations
Leonardo\'s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould\'s popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has announced that the series will end with the turn of the millennium.
In this collection, Gould consciously and unconventionally formulates a humanistic natural history, a consideration of how humans have learned to study and understand nature, rather than a history of nature itself.
With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature\'s and humanity\'s diversity and order.
In affecting short biographies, he depicts how scholars grapple with problems of science and philosophy as he illuminates the interaction of the outer world with the unique human ability to struggle to understand the whys and wherefores of existence.
Shipping fee (The Netherlands: € 7,25; Europe: € 14,95, The rest of the world: $ 27,95) to be paid by buyer